California’s population continues to dwindle.
The state’s population declined by 114,000 individuals from about 39,143,000 in 2021 to 39,029,000 in 2022, new estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau present. California’s 0.3% population lower is definitely barely smaller than the 0.9% fall the state skilled from 2020 and 2021.
Meanwhile, throughout the nation, the population grew barely — by about 0.4%. California stays the largest state in the U.S. by population.
California wasn’t the solely state to lose population in 2022. Data exhibits six of the 10 largest states in the U.S., together with California, Illinois and New York, have had populations decline between 2021 and 2022. Florida and Texas had the largest population will increase amongst giant states, by 1.9% and 1.6% respectively.
“This (California population) decline is a product of many short-term forces, including more people moving to other states and the pandemic’s effect on births, deaths, and immigration,” researchers for the Public Policy Institute of California
wrote in a brief.
Pandemic-era journey restrictions led to deep declines in worldwide migration to California in 2020 and 2021 — a pattern that mirrored that of the remainder of the nation. But the variety of new residents in California from different international locations bounced again in 2022, with over 125,000 web worldwide migrants arriving. All U.S. states noticed optimistic web overseas migration in 2022.
Counteracting that was the continued exodus of individuals from California to different states. Many
Californians are leaving for less expensive states, notably these from main coastal metro areas like San Francisco. California misplaced 340,000 extra individuals to different states than they gained from 2021 to 2022.
Yuri Avila and Yoohyun Jung are San Francisco Chronicle employees writers. Email: [email protected], [email protected]